Alpinia

Being commonly known as Tahitian Ginger, it represents a genus Alpinia from the family Zingiberaceae. This flowering plant is native to Malaya, and can be come across throughout the tropical Pacific area.

Tahitian Ginger may reach up to 15 feet in length, but the most species are 6-5 feet tall. Alpinias are distinguished by spectacular and aromatic blooms making a large ball of blossoms in pale pink to dark red cues.  The tube-like flowers come in clusters. In fact, the plant does not borne blossoms for the first three years.

Then the mature Alpinia bears immense- football sized blooms, flowering all year around. The plant grows from big rhizomes, thus flowers are produced on long racemes. One of the Alpinia plant’s distinctive characteristics is that the new plants occur in the middle of the old ones.

Alpinia make perfect cut flowers , being widely used in Hawaiian tropical floral arrangements. Having an unusual tropical display, its foliage represents a great addition to flower arrangements as well. Alpinia is the national flower of Samoa.

Alpinia